Samsung Electronics
Corporate investor
Active
Seoul, South Korea
64
79M
60
1.16
18
0.05
13
- Areas of investment
Summary
Samsung Electronics is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1969. The company was established in Asia in South Korea. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Suwon.
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 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Semiconductor. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Starent Networks, Wave Computing, TTTech. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.
This organization was formed by Byung-chul Lee. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Samsung Electronics, startups are often financed by VantagePoint Capital Partners, Intel Capital, Samsung Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, Matrix Partners, Highland Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Samsung Ventures, UOB Venture, Korea Investment Partners.
The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this Samsung Electronics performs on 17 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Samsung Electronics is 10-50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2010.
Investor highlights
- Stage focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 64
- Lead investments
- 18
- Exits
- 13
- Rounds per year
- 1.16
- Follow on index
- 0.05
- Investments by industry
- Software (15)
- Manufacturing (13)
- Artificial Intelligence (10)
- Information Technology (9)
- Machine Learning (8) Show 114 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (28)
- China (5)
- Canada (1)
- Austria (2)
- Germany (2) Show 7 more
- Peak activity year
- 2017
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
- Number of Minotaurs
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 12
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 75M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.69
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.06
- Strategy success index
- 0.60
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