Samsung Ventures

In 1999 was created Samsung Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Seoul. The venture was found in Asia in South Korea. Samsung Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pure Storage, Niantic, Quanergy Systems. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Machine Learning, Enterprise Software.

The overall number of key employees were 5.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The real fund results show that this VC is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The typical startup value when the investment from Samsung Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this Samsung Ventures works on 0 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Samsung Ventures, startups are often financed by Qualcomm Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Formation 8. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Softbank Ventures Asia, Khosla Ventures, Formation 8. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Menlo Ventures.

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