Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center

Total investments

5

Average round size

20M

Portfolio companies

5

Rounds per year

0.56

Lead investments

2

Exits

1

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHardwareSemiconductorInternet of ThingsPredictive Analytics

Summary

Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2012. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Menlo Park.

The overall number of key employees were 3.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Graphcore, Afero, Sentiance For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. 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 a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Big Data, Machine Learning.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center, startups are often financed by Strike4, Samsung Catalyst Fund, NantWorks. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Samsung Catalyst Fund, Qualcomm Ventures, Imagination Technologies. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Pitango Venture Capital, Foundation Capital.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. This Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
5
Lead investments
2
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.56
Investments by industry
  • Hardware (4)
  • Semiconductor (2)
  • Artificial Intelligence (2)
  • Machine Learning (2)
  • Software (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (3)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Belgium (1)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
300M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
8
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Keyssa 01 Oct 2014 Big Data, Hardware, Mechanical Design Late Stage Venture 25M United States, California
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