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Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center

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Total investments 5
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$20M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 0.56
Lead investments 2
Exits 1
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • Hardware
  • Semiconductor
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Software
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Graphcore

Artificial Intelligence
Hardware
Machine Learning
Semiconductor
$30M31 Oct 2016 England

Hardware
Internet
Mobile
$27M18 May 2016 California, United States

Sentiance

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Software
$5M17 Nov 2015 Antwerp

Keyssa

Big Data
Hardware
Mechanical Design
$25M01 Oct 2014 California, United States

Ineda Systems

Computer
Consumer
Hardware
Semiconductor
Software
$17M08 Apr 2014 San Jose, California, United States

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Total investments 5
Average round size 20M
Rounds per year 0.56
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 2
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Graphcore

Artificial Intelligence
Hardware
Machine Learning
Semiconductor
$30M31 Oct 2016 England

Hardware
Internet
Mobile
$27M18 May 2016 California, United States

Sentiance

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Software
$5M17 Nov 2015 Antwerp

Keyssa

Big Data
Hardware
Mechanical Design
$25M01 Oct 2014 California, United States

Ineda Systems

Computer
Consumer
Hardware
Semiconductor
Software
$17M08 Apr 2014 San Jose, California, United States
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