Primer

Total investments

116

Average round size

641K

Portfolio companies

86

Rounds per year

8.29

Lead investments

13

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

4

Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareAppsMobile AppsEducationFashionVideo

Summary

Primer appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The venture was found in Asia in South Korea. The main department of described VC is located in the Seoul.

The important activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Primer works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

The current fund was established by Douglas Guen.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Primer, startups are often financed by Strong Ventures, Sazze, Douglas Guen. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Strong Ventures, Sazze Partners, Sazze. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Strong Ventures, Y Combinator, Sazze.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight WASHSWAT, Miso, Cupix. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, Apps. 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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
116
Lead investments
13
Exits
4
Rounds per year
8.29
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (15)
  • Information Technology (14)
  • Software (13)
  • Apps (11)
  • Health Care (11)
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Investments by region
  • South Korea (104)
  • United States (6)
Peak activity year
2020

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3M
Group Appearance index
0.56
Avg. company exit year
5

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Coffeeting 19 Mar 2024 Seed Kyonggi-do, Seongnam, South Korea
Robros 21 Jul 2023 Robotics, Industrial Automation Seed 1M Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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