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Samsung Electronics

Founders Byung-chul Lee Porcha Akins

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Total investments 68
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$80M
Portfolio companies 64
Rounds per year 1.24
Lead investments 18
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.04
Exits 13
Key employees 4

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Manufacturing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Technology
  • Machine Learning
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Spline

Software
$10M14 Aug 2024 Middletown, Delaware, United States

Protect AI

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Security
Software
$60M02 Aug 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

Hona AI

$3M03 May 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

CharacterX

3D Technology
Blockchain
$2M11 Jan 2024 -

SnapAds

Advertising Platforms
Affiliate Marketing
Marketing
Small and Medium Businesses
Social Media Marketing
$800K16 Aug 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Hammerspace

Cloud Data Services
Cloud Storage
Data Storage
Information Technology
Software
$56M18 Jul 2023 San Mateo, California, United States

Neubility

Information Technology
Robotics
$3M09 Mar 2023 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

DoubleMe

3D Technology
Augmented Reality
Digital Entertainment
Digital Media
Software
Video Games
Virtual Reality
Virtual World
$25M20 Apr 2022 Sunnyvale, California, United States

XPerience XR

Information Services
Information Technology
14 Sep 2021 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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Total investments 68
Average round size 80M
Rounds per year 1.24
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 18
Follow on index 0.04
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.71

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Spline

Software
$10M14 Aug 2024 Middletown, Delaware, United States

Protect AI

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Security
Software
$60M02 Aug 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

Hona AI

$3M03 May 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

CharacterX

3D Technology
Blockchain
$2M11 Jan 2024 -

SnapAds

Advertising Platforms
Affiliate Marketing
Marketing
Small and Medium Businesses
Social Media Marketing
$800K16 Aug 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Hammerspace

Cloud Data Services
Cloud Storage
Data Storage
Information Technology
Software
$56M18 Jul 2023 San Mateo, California, United States

Neubility

Information Technology
Robotics
$3M09 Mar 2023 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

DoubleMe

3D Technology
Augmented Reality
Digital Entertainment
Digital Media
Software
Video Games
Virtual Reality
Virtual World
$25M20 Apr 2022 Sunnyvale, California, United States

XPerience XR

Information Services
Information Technology
14 Sep 2021 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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