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POSCO Venture Capital

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Total investments 36
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 32
Rounds per year 1.33
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
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Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Blockchain
Summary

POSCO Venture Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1997. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Pohang. The company was established in Asia in South Korea.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 participants. Despite the POSCO Venture Capital, startups are often financed by WONIK Investment Partners, Triathlon Medical Venture Partners, SK Securities. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Premier Partners, Korea Development Bank, WONIK Investment Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Shinhan Bank, LB Investment, KEB Hana Bank.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Juventas Therapeutics, Studio XID, Shakr.com. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Wearables, Mobile. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - South Korea.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NaraSpace Technology

Aerospace
Software
Space Travel
$17M21 May 2024 Busan, Pusan-jikhalsi, South Korea

Pluto

Information Services
Information Technology
SaaS
$3M11 Jan 2023 Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Nearthlab

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Drones
Image Recognition
Information Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$15M01 Mar 2022 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

OKHOME

Home Services
Local
Service Industry
$28M15 Nov 2021 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Moneybrain

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Professional Services
$44M11 Aug 2021 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

WELT

Fashion
Fitness
Health Care
Lifestyle
Software
Wearables
23 Mar 2021 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Hexlant

Blockchain
Information Technology
$348K01 Oct 2020 Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

PSDL

Information Technology
Internet of Things
Security
$87K16 Sep 2020 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

Wayne Hills Bryant AI

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$84K06 Sep 2020 Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

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Total investments 36
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 1.33
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.11
Group Appearance index 0.69

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NaraSpace Technology

Aerospace
Software
Space Travel
$17M21 May 2024 Busan, Pusan-jikhalsi, South Korea

Pluto

Information Services
Information Technology
SaaS
$3M11 Jan 2023 Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Nearthlab

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Drones
Image Recognition
Information Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$15M01 Mar 2022 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

OKHOME

Home Services
Local
Service Industry
$28M15 Nov 2021 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Moneybrain

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Professional Services
$44M11 Aug 2021 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

WELT

Fashion
Fitness
Health Care
Lifestyle
Software
Wearables
23 Mar 2021 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Hexlant

Blockchain
Information Technology
$348K01 Oct 2020 Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

PSDL

Information Technology
Internet of Things
Security
$87K16 Sep 2020 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

Wayne Hills Bryant AI

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$84K06 Sep 2020 Seocho, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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